Cisco recently patched two critical vulnerabilities in their firewall products, discovered after probable nation-state actors targeted them in a campaign dubbed "Arcane Door". These zero-day vulnerabilities, found in devices running ASA and FTD software, were exploited to implant malware and possibly steal data. Cisco …

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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining a robust security posture is imperative for businesses and organizations of all sizes. One essential aspect of this security posture is effective password management, which can often be overlooked. A question I ask my customers quite often scares me with the …

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Welcome back to my series on maintenance operations with Nutanix! In Part 1, I reviewed some scenarios on using maintenance mode with Nutanix AHV, using both Maintenance Mode functions within Prism Element and the CLI. As a quick recap from Part 1, you can use both the GUI functionality in AOS 6.x+ to place a host in …

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As with years past, as we come to a close on year’s end, I take some time to clean up the As-Built documentation templates I maintain for deployments; as part of this activity, I always come across outdated sections based on current feature sets, or areas that I think can use some additional content. This week, I …

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Zerto just dropped Update 2 for version 10, and they continue to really drive some great features into the product, extending what started with v10 as some game-changing features. See my past post on this one. Starting with v10, Zerto made the ZVM role only available on a Linux appliance, even though it was available …

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In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the availability, protection, and recovery of data and applications is paramount. Organizations need robust solutions to address the challenges of multi-cloud environments, cyber threats, and data loss incidents. Enter Zerto, and specifically Virtual Replication v10, a …

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It took me a while, but I finally migrated the blog from my original hosted Ghost platform to a new one, which hopefully will give me a good burst of energy to update some content! I decided to move away from etherbacon.com to a more personalized blog, mikedent.io. One area that I wanted to spend more focus time on …

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As we wrap up the Super Bowl and realize that football (both College and Pro's) is over (I can't get on board with the USFL just yet), it's time to look to something else! I just wrapped a great week of interaction and passing not one but two cert exams, it's a week that get's me amped up about what comes next! As I …

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Just a quick post, but 2022 has been a great year on many fronts! As we move faster to the end of the year, I always like to reflect back on what was achieved. Getting to spend this week with one our Account Executives in the DC area engaging with our Customers and discussing their goals, 2023 roadmap and other …

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Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully! After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on the Nutanix AHV platform I ran into a bug where the VM would not boot after the upgrade. While the …

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